Suspender-buckle.



PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905.

H. J. GAISMAN. SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 9. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented June 27, 1905.

HENRY J. GAISMAN, OF NEXY YORK, i\'. Y.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,367, dated June 27, 1905.

Application filed April 9, 1904. Serial No. 202,330.

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Be it known that l, HENRY J. (iAISAIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, borough of )"lanhattan, New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

hly invention relates to improvements in devices for adjusting the length of the shoulder straps or webs in suspenders and similar articles, and has for its object to provide means to permit the ready manipulation of the movable gripping member or lover of the buckle and to cover the same to preventit from wearing the lining of vests and the like and from corroding or rusting from perspiration.

My invention comprises the novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein Figure 1 is a face view of a portion of a pair of suspenders embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, enlarged, on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of my improvements, showing the gripping member thrown upwardly out of action. Fig. i is a similar view showing the details of construction of the gripping member; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view, enlarged, of the gripping member and its support.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 indicates the shoulder strap or web of a pair of suspenders of the kind adapted to be folded, as at 1, to support the suspemler-ends 2 and provided with a frame 3, connected with the free end of the web or strap 1 in usual manner. (See Fig. 2.)

Ati is indicated the movable gripping member or lover of the buckle, which is provided with one or more teeth +L to grip the web or strap and hinged upon the frame 3, as by eyes i", (see Fig. 5,) the web 1 passing between frame 3 and the member or levcr 4. At 42' the member or lever i has an extension, and said member or lever is inclosed within a covsuch as leather or fabric. As shown, the coveringorshield 5 is folded around the member or lever J se as to inclose the same, and is provided with an extended llexible tab-like portion 5, that projects beyond the extension at" to permit ready manipulation of the lever. After the covering or shield 5 is looped around the member or lever el to inclose the latter, the portions 5" 5" of said cover are secured together, as by stitches 6, to conline the member or lover a within such cover, and the teeth 1 may pass through the cover, so as to grip web 1, slots 5 being provided in the cover for that purpose. '(See Fig. i.)

The arrangement is such that the gripping member or lever-a of the buckle, which is usually made of metal and has more or less sharp edges and corners, is protected by the leather or fabric cover or shield 5, so that said metal member will not engage the lining of the vest or other clothing of the wearer and is thereby prevented from wearing or tearing the same, and the tab 5, which extends freely beyond the member or lover a, can be readily grasped by the user for swinging back the lever for opening or closing the buckle, as the tab end portion 5*extends free and flexibly beyond the stitching 6.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is 1. A suspeiuler-buckle comprising a supporting-frame and a gripping member movably connected therewith and provided with a flexible cover substantially entirely inclosing said member to prevent contact of the member with a garment and having a flexible tablike portion extending beyond said member, substantially as described.

2. A suspemler-buckle comprising a supporting-frame and a gripping member pivotallyconnected therewith and provided with a leather cover folded substantially around said member and having its opposed portions secured together to prevent contact of the member with a garment, said cover being provided with a flexible extended tab-like portion extending beyond the member, substantially as described.

3. A suspcmler-buckle comprising a supporting-frame and a lever pivotally connected therewith and provided with a tooth and having a flexible cover folded substantially entirely around said lever and provided With an aperture through which said tooth projects, the opposed members of said cover being secured together and a tab-like portion projecting beyond the lever from said cover, substantially as described.

4. A suspender-buckle comprising a frame, a lever pivotally connected therewith and provided With a tooth and an extended part, and a flexible cover folded substantially entirely around said member inclosing said extended part, the opposed portions of said cover being secured together, a tab-like portion of said cover extending freely beyond said lever, substantially as described.

5. A Suspender-buckle comprising a supporting-frame, a lever pivotally connected therewith, and a cover folded substantially entirely around said lever, the opposite Webs of the cover being secured together, said cover having a flexible integral tab-like portion extending freely beyond the lever, substantially as described.

HENRY J. GAISMAN.

Witnesses:

'1. F. BoURNE, M. HoLLINcsHEAD. 

